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Error when using env vars in the dbt_project.yml

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Description

To Reproduce

Use an env var in the dbt_project.yml Example

target-path: " {{env_var('DBT_TARGET_PATH', 'target')}}"

Connect project
See error

DbtError: cannot read response from dbt, could nor read dbt artifact: /usr/app/dbt/{{env_var('DBT_TARGET_PATH', 'target')}}/manifest.json

App Version

0.166.0

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

owlascommented, Aug 16, 2022

@ZeRego we override the target field so your example would work fine now, is that the only problem or did you want to generically support env vars in the dbt_project.yml? https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash/issues/2770

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ZeRegocommented, Aug 11, 2022

@owlas @rephus haven’t we fixed this already ?

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